Back-protector for corsets



UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS P. EBAY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BACK-PROTECTOR FOR CORSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,994, dated December 12, 1882,

' Application filed November 4, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, MORRIS P. BRAY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in Back-Protectors for Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a rear view showing the pad as applied to the corset; Fig. 2, a vertical central section of the pad on line a: w of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, the surface of the pad, showing the loops; Fig. 4, a transverse section through the pad and back sections of the corset.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, the object of the invention being to provide a protector at the back which will cover the lacing and lie between thelacing and the hack of the wearer, yet easily adjustable,- and so as not to interfere with the lacing of the corset; and the invention consists in astrip or pad having loops vertically on its outer surface, through which the runs of the lacing are passed, the portion of the pad each side the loop passing beneath the respective edges of the hack of the corset, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the back or lacing section of one part of the corset, and B the corresponding section of the other part, each provided with eyelets for lacing, in the usual manner.

0 is a pad, a little wider than the space in- V tended to be left between the two edgesof the corset when laced, made entirely independent of the parts of the corset. Itis bestmade from two or more thicknesses of material, as seen in Fig. 4, with several stays, rt,introduced therein, and in the manner of making sections of corsets. On the outside, and preferably in its vertical central line, several loops, 1), are attached. These loops are best attached by taking a strip of tape or double fabric and stitching it to the pad at difi'erent points, as

the inside of the corset, and also serves as an additional back-stay.

If the wearer desires to cover thelaoing upon the outside, so as to prevent its appearance through the dress, then the stay may he placed upon the outside of the corset, with the loops inward between the two parts.

This construction enables me to produce a back pad or protector for corsets, which may be sold as an article in the market entirely independent of the corset, and which any wearer may apply to the corset at'pleasure; or. it at any time it is not required, it may be readily removed. It .necessttates no change in the construction of the corset, and hence is universal in its adaptation. I prefer to make the pad with several stays, both for tlie'purpose of keeping the pad in its position and also to serve as an additional or auxiliary back-stay, but it may he simply a pad used as a protector or cover for the lac ings.

I claim- The herein-described back-pad for attach ment to corsets, consisting of the pad U, constructed with loops on its surface through which the lacings pass, the said pad constructed to extend each side of the loops over the eyelet-sections of the corset, substantially as described.

. MORRIS P. BRAY. Witnesses:

J 0s. 0. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

